Mr. Wonderful Advent Calendar

What is inside the Mr. Wonderful advent calendar?

The Mr. Wonderful Advent Calendar 2026 drops its ‘Wonder Circus’ theme behind 24 doors, and it comes in two separate boxes that share nothing but the circus and the countdown. One is shaped like a Ferris wheel, the other like a big top. Neither hides a single chocolate: everything in here is a keeper.

The box reads ‘It’s show time! Find the 24 mini Bo-Bo’, and that line sums up the pitch. This is a stationery calendar for people who already like Mr. Wonderful, the kind of buyer who keeps the pen and never had a treat to eat. The Premium Ferris Wheel leans collectable, the Capra de Circo big top leans practical and works for children from 6 years up.

What you get in each version

The Premium Ferris Wheel box opens out into a working fairground wheel that spins, and behind its 24 doors sit 24 mini Bo-Bo erasable pens, one a day. Each pen carries a different Christmas or circus character (a lion, an elephant, a rabbit, a mouse, a bear tamer and so on) and a different ink colour, so the point is to complete the set across the month.

The Capra de Circo box is a big top packed with 24 stationery pieces and desk accessories, with one surprise Bo-Bo pen that’s exclusive to this calendar tucked in among them. Think pencils, mini pens, a highlighter, erasers, two small notebooks, rulers, keyrings and stickers: small things, but the sort you’ll actually use at school or on a desk once the countdown is over.

On original price, the Ferris Wheel works out at £39.55 across 24 pens, so about £1.65 a pen; the Capra comes to £29.55 across 24 pieces, roughly £1.23 an object. Those are modest unit numbers, which tells you plainly what you’re paying for.

The door-by-door list sits in the SPOILER tab.

Ferris Wheel or Capra: how the two compare

These boxes answer two different questions. The Ferris Wheel is the display piece: the wheel that turns is the whole appeal, and 24 collectable Bo-Bo pens in one colour each make it a set to finish, not a daily tool. It’s the one for a Mr. Wonderful fan who wants the object on the shelf afterwards.

The Capra earns its keep after December. A spiral notebook, a glue stick, two rulers and a highlighter are things a child or a student reaches for in January, which is exactly the test that matters for stationery. At £10 less and open to children from 6, it’s the more flexible buy of the two.

My view on the Mr. Wonderful advent calendar

What I like first is that Mr. Wonderful didn’t just reprint another chocolate box. The spinning Ferris wheel is a genuinely good idea, and the Bo-Bo pens are objects you keep and rewrite, not sweets you finish on Christmas Eve. That alone sets it apart from most of what’s on the shelf in autumn.

Where it wobbles is the mini format and the ink. A tiny erasable pen runs dry faster than you’d want, and the Capra’s individual objects carry modest value one by one. You don’t buy either box to get your money back in product.

So here’s how I’d put it: ‘with Mr. Wonderful you’re not paying for the value of the surprises, you’re paying for the small daily pleasure of opening a door and the good mood that comes with it’. At £1.65 a pen on the Ferris Wheel, the price stays in step with what lands in your hand.

• Skip it if you want a calendar whose contents hold their value, or long-lasting pens.
• Buy it for the design, the collectable set and a stationery box that’s still useful in January.

The spirit of Mr. Wonderful

Mr. Wonderful started in Barcelona and built its name on cheerful, colourful stationery: notebooks, mugs and pens covered in naive little drawings and upbeat one-liners. Good mood is the whole product, more than any single notebook, which is why a Christmas countdown suits the brand so well.

The ‘Wonder Circus’ edition pours that into a fairground: red, navy and cream, a Ferris wheel, a big top and circus animals, with the Bo-Bo pen as the thread that runs through both boxes. The 24 characters are the brand’s drawing style applied to a countdown, which is about as on-brand as a calendar gets.

Where to buy the Mr. Wonderful advent calendar

Both versions are available at Amazon for the 2026 season. No discount code is available at the time of writing. Compare the best offers at the top of the page.

• Mr. Wonderful Premium Ferris Wheel (24 collectable Bo-Bo pens, around £1.65 a pen)
• Mr. Wonderful Capra de Circo (24 stationery pieces, roughly £1.23 an object)